Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio on Thursday declined to take a firm stance on a newly proposed bill in Florida that would require immigrants to carry identification or face a 20-day jail sentence.

The bill was unveiled Wednesday by Bill McCollum, the state’s Republican attorney general and gubernatorial candidate.

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In his announcement, McCollum specifically evoked Arizona’s controversial immigration law — which would have allowed law enforcement to check the citizenship of anyone they arrest and detain, before a federal judge moved to stop the implementation of that provision last month.

“Arizona is going to want this law,” McCollum said, according to the St. Petersburg Times. “We're better, we're stronger, we're tougher and we're fairer.”

After the Arizona bill passed, Rubio said he had “concerns” that the measure could “unreasonably single out people who are here legally.”

But when asked by POLITICO about Rubio’s stance on Florida’s proposal, which is in the same vein as Arizona’s, spokesman Alex Burgos offered a softer stance on the new bill.

“He believes the best approach is for the federal government to deal with border security and immigration, and he hopes state efforts like Arizona are a wake-up call for Congress to get its act together,” Burgos said of Rubio. “He thinks it's a step in the right direction for Congress to return to address border security in the upcoming vote.”

Rubio's chief independent opponent, Gov. Charlie Crist, said on Wednesday that he opposes the new bill, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "I don't like the Arizona law, I don't think it's the right way to go. The people of Florida are very fair-minded and the notion you would pull somebody over because of how they looked or how they appeared and based on maybe nothing else but that, and that is cause for law enforcement to stop you, I don’t think that is a state anybody would enjoy," he said.

This just in from The People's Think Tank (Where we do your thinking for you.) In what appears to be an amazing turnabout President Obama has resorted to racial profiling in order to promote amnesty for illegal aliens by meeting with the congressional Hispanic caucus and promising them that he will do everything in his power to legalize Hispanic illegals who he believes make up the vast majority of illegal aliens now in the country. A White House spokesman when asked about the President's racial profiling responded that according to the 2010 census Hispanic is not a racial category so the President can't possibly be accused of racial profiling. The spokesman was then asked if that's the case then on what basis was the Federal Government accusing Arizona of passing a law that would result in racial profiling. The spokesman was momentarily taken aback but then gave the following explanation. “While it's true that Hispanic is not a racial category as far as the federal government is concerned we have determined that in Arizona it is a racial category. Therefore, if the authorities in Arizona detain any Hispanic illegal aliens then they are most certainly practicing racial profiling. When queried as to how you can belong to a particular race in Arizona while at the same time the federal government insists that that race doesn't even exist the spokesman broke down and admitted that of course it didn't make any sense but it was made necessary by virtue of demographics. What follows was not only off the record but also not for attribution. “We have a mid-term election coming up and it's important that the democrats retain control of congress so that the President can pretend to implement the change we think we believe in. And because the President has basically trashed his progressive base he is pinning his hopes on the Hispanic voting block to keep the democrats in power. Furthermore he's convinced that Hispanics and their liberal, union and corporate supporters are demanding that low wage illegal aliens be granted a path to citizenship. Also, it goes without saying that it's absolutely imperative that the current illegals become legal to make room for the next wave of illegals.” When asked if that meant that the President doesn't really want to stop illegal aliens from coming across the border the spokesman stated, “Of course not, his economic advisers have told him that without cheap exploitable labor most American corporations still located in the United States would go belly up. We need these low wage workers so we can compete with China and India which have literally hundreds of million people willing to work under conditions that would make slavery in the south look like a worker's paradise. "Issues such as these are much too important to be left to the will of the people or the laws of the land. We are very fortunate that in these troubled times that President Obama is able to ignore the will of the people and decide which laws should be enforced and which ones should be ignored." The officials at The People's Think Tank have yet to decide whether or not this information should be made public so stay tuned.

Marco Rubio is a two faced clown. He couldn't get elected dog catcher, good luck telling all your family the GOP believes they should be racially profiled because they speak NO INGLES Rubio... oh, and then ask them to vote for you, who supports that ! ROFLMAO

Rubio defending his Latino heritage, as he should, especially if he expects to lose against Crist with any integrity left to attempt to come back and battle again (If his white puppeteers will have him)

The Great White Nopes in this country are coming to the realization that America is a jumbalaya of cultures with most being of African, Latino and European heritages.

Those who isolate themselves with no connection with either will find themselves and their ideology on the bottom of the totem pole. Just ask the TeaNuts

The GOP will have to tear itself down and rebuild because those in the Tea Party aren't going to save them, they'll easily slay them with utter ignorance, petulance and obvious racism emitted from frustration.

The best candidates the GOP have can't compete on a national scale with Hussein, and the TeaNuts best candidates can't make it out of the primaries.

If Daddy GOP, with all of its power and structure cannot defeat Obama, how can the TeaNuts with resources of a Barnum and Bailey script, how can you?

Rubio defending his Latino heritage, as he should, especially if he expects to lose against Crist with any integrity left to attempt to come back and battle again (If his white puppeteers will have him)

The Great White Nopes in this country are coming to the realization that America is a jumbalaya of cultures with most being of African, Latino and European heritages.

Those who isolate themselves with no connection with either will find themselves and their ideology on the bottom of the totem pole. Just ask the TeaNuts

The GOP will have to tear itself down and rebuild because those in the Tea Party aren't going to save them, they'll easily slay them with utter ignorance, petulance and obvious racism emitted from frustration.

The best candidates the GOP have can't compete on a national scale with Hussein, and the TeaNuts best candidates can't make it out of the primaries.

If Daddy GOP, with all of its power and structure, are unable defeat Obama, and the TeaNuts with resources of a Barnum and Bailey script, how can you?

Latino republican candidates are in a terrible dilemma. If they appear soft on illegal immigration and amnesty, they risk losing a part of the republican base which is white and very angry about illegal immigration.

On the other hand, a guy like Rubio who is hoping to get a respectable percentage of the Latino vote, because he himself is Latino, risks alienating his own tribe if he says the wrong thing on immigration.

Much of this dilemma stems from the success of the far-left and the Latino nationalist groups. These creeps have succeeded in planting the idea that ALL immigration enforcment is "racist". And, so most Latinos now perceive those candidates who are strongly in favor of enforcing immigration laws as "anti-latino, anti-immigrant racists".

It is true that most of the anger about illegal immigration is from whites who are not happy about being transformed into a racial minority in the nation our ancestors founded. So, yeah, it IS all about race.

So what?

Its all about race on the LATINO side also! All they care about is getting more of "their people" into this country, to grow their political and cultural power. The highest unemployment levels since the great depression? La Raza wants MORE poor people brought into the nation. Over crowded schools, hospitals, public facilities, governments going broke helping low income people? No problem!

Just give us amnesty and unlimited visas for MORE latinos to come here, says La Raza

I feel sorry for Latinos who lean conservative. They have to keep quiet about their political ideas, or risk being labelled a "sellout" to the gringos. This is a loss of freedom which us evil white racists don't have to worry about. Whites are free to be liberal or conservative. Black Americans have the same dilemma. They are not ALLOWED by the leftist media and the prevailing culure to be "conservative". They must hew to the liberal line, or be labelled "house n$% &%rs" or worse.

They must hew to the liberal line, or be labelled "house n$% &%rs" or worse.

And the poor white man is left to fend for himself with virtually no other voting demographic in America to control or support him. It'll be funny to see how the rigid, one dimensional white man in America transforms into a demographic needing to support either those who spew negatives, fear and isolation or those who's foundations are to work together and be one.

Based on their history, they've chosen to amputate their entire arms for paper cuts on their pinky fingers. Let's see if they can do again what their past histories have proved.

Talk about cognitive dissonance...Scott and McGollum are so busy trying to out teabag each other that they are going to make Florida so draconian that Arizona will look like a illegal's paradise in comparison...and poor Rubio is stuck trying to defend his party's stance on the whole matter. Life must be hard as a token. Perhaps Rubio should hit up Steele for some advice.

As for Rubio, he looks like a fool being a Latino in the Republican Party. Those Confederate racists will not vote for him. He is wasting his talent and his time.

Confederate "racists" voted for Scott in SC, and West in Florida. Confederate racists nominated Brian Sandoval, a genuine Mexican American Latino Hispanic (whose kids don't look hispanic) for governor of Nevada. Confederate racists nominated Nikki Haley, a swear to God Sikh, for governor in SC. And Barbara Martinez in New Mexico, and quite a few other "people of color" across America. Here in California the confederate racist Vietnamese candidate is taking on Loretta Sanchez for congress. (he is from "south Vietnam", therefore he is a confederate. And since all republicans are automatically guilty of being "racists", he as also a racist.

Got all that?

Gee, I guess we evil white racists are slipping. Look what is happening to our party, affectionatey referred to as the "racist, tea-bagger, Ku Klux Klan party"

marco is getting exactly what he deserves. accepting the endorsement of teabaggers was the only way to win the republican nomination and now it will be his demise. How in the world can he explain that he is NOT in favor of having his relatives profiled? teabaggers won't vote for him and neither will his family. Who exactly is left?

It's not only if you're arrested. Stop spreading false information. A police officer can ask for immigration stauts durng any "lawful contact." If you show ID, and he still thinks you're illegal based on "reasonable suspicion," he can detain you. Reasonable suspicion is undefined and if the cop makes a mistake and detains an US citizen he facses no penalty.

marco is getting exactly what he deserves. accepting the endorsement of teabaggers was the only way to win the republican nomination and now it will be his demise. How in the world can he explain that he is NOT in favor of having his relatives profiled? teabaggers won't vote for him and neither will his family. Who exactly is left?

This is the guy who said that he doesn't care about racial profiling because his kids look white? I guess minorities can win GOP races as long as they promise to uphold the values of white supremacy. But could a minority GOP candidate who espouses racial equality ever win? So far, it hasn't happened.

Mike Huckabee has just defended the 14th Amendment, defended our constitution. I bet you anything he will be run out of the Teabigot GOP.